REFLECTIONS

Happy Hanukkah, @BurkeanMama!

All the Town Hall weblog contributors: 2009 is NOT the end of the decade.

The world’s Dear Leader has accepted the peace prize. He told us “cultural leveling of modernity.” It sounds expensive!

Alex Gimarc on Holder, Belugas, Minarets, Honduras. #tcot #tlot

The windows are rattling here in Northern San Diego County.   The marines are gearing up for Afghanistan, conducting war games.   30 and a half years ago the windows rattled like this.  The Marines were gearing up for the Desert One Debacle, as another pacifist President incompently rattled sabers.  May God Bless and Keep all those [...]

In 1948, George Orwell reverse the year to titled his anti-socialism book, 1984. That novel told us how nanny big-brother governance would re-write history and reduce language so that their subjects need not bother to think. For several generations now dumb-down education from the governmental schools have given the American Union an abundance of high-honour-roll [...]

It is too ironic that Sen. Reid is comparing those opposed to yet another gov’t serfdom plot to the defenders of slavery.  It is too ironic for the Senate Leader of the party that kept power for 150 years only be denying the rights of black Americans to pull the slavery card.  Democrats tore this [...]

E.P.A. has declared it will regulate carbon dioxide if Congress does not pass Cap and Trade. Our Dear Leader is telling an equal branch of the American government he cares less if Congress pass law or not: he is the president and more equal. With this bureaucratic Obama-blessed monarchistic assumption of power if the Democratic [...]

It takes a special kind of stupid to imagine that medical care will improve once the government is in charge.  Look at the many and sundry scandals over VA hospitals.  The idea that people will get more and better medical care under a government plan defies all human history, facts, and reason.  But who said [...]

In my little corner of the reddest state of all we live in the shadow of Camp Pendeleton USMC base.  Since the marines are a fixture here, the cheering sights at our Christmas Parade may not mean anything.   But I will take any happy signs I can get. The parade featured the brilliant high kicks [...]

Nicole Black, @nikiblack, is coining a new term for social media: Intermedia = interactive media, the next stage of the Internet, where the world interacts, interconnects, interfaces, interweaves, intervenes, and intersects. Intermedia is intergenerational. It’s the intermediate, or next step between what was and what will be. “Inter” means “put to rest,”—and intermedia is effectively [...]

Last night my Brer-Tiger, who is an engineer and has some working familiarity with scientific method, and I were discussing climategate.  I said this is what happens when scientists let themselves become tools of politicians.  Brer- Tiger laughed at that and said it was more likely that the politicians were tools of the scientists.  He [...]

I hate calling the President of the USA stupid because it makes me sound like a liberal.  But surely there is nothing stupider in the history of warfare than announcing to the enemy that in 18 months you are leaving?  Imagine how much Hitler would have loved such an announcement from FDR in 1942.  Democrats [...]